Pet Peeves #4-#6
Pet Peeves #1 - #3
4: Pedestrians when I'm a driver, drivers when I'm a pedestrian
And it is alamming at the speed at which I can change this viewpoint. I will literally be downtown driving cursing the slow walkers in my way and then park, walk out of my car, and instantly feel emboldened being a walker and annoyed at those pesky impatient earth killing metal machines.
5: White people who say, "Back in the day" and Black people who talk about their, "Love of hip-hop"
For different reasons. The white one b/c of the trying to act black. The black one b/c I get really annoyed when people act like Hip-Hop is some sacred poetry. I'm not saying it's not good music, but it's not exactly Emily Freaking Dickinsin either!
6: Raspberries in Chocolate deserts.
If I wanted a fruit desert I would have ordered the fruity desert. And who bestowed raspberries as the eternal compliment to chocoalate? Just because they're both dark? I don't get it.
4: Pedestrians when I'm a driver, drivers when I'm a pedestrian
And it is alamming at the speed at which I can change this viewpoint. I will literally be downtown driving cursing the slow walkers in my way and then park, walk out of my car, and instantly feel emboldened being a walker and annoyed at those pesky impatient earth killing metal machines.
5: White people who say, "Back in the day" and Black people who talk about their, "Love of hip-hop"
For different reasons. The white one b/c of the trying to act black. The black one b/c I get really annoyed when people act like Hip-Hop is some sacred poetry. I'm not saying it's not good music, but it's not exactly Emily Freaking Dickinsin either!
6: Raspberries in Chocolate deserts.
If I wanted a fruit desert I would have ordered the fruity desert. And who bestowed raspberries as the eternal compliment to chocoalate? Just because they're both dark? I don't get it.
Labels: Life
posted by chuckdaddy2000 at 10:15 am
11 Comments:
An awful lot of hip-hop, including much of the most popular stuff, is ass stupid, and if I was black I would be mortified about the ethics it outlines. Aw, who am I kidding, I'm mortified anyway.
On the other hand, most of Emily Dickenson is ass stupid too, so I think hip-hop actually wins this one. She's even more overrated than.... well, we won't get into that.
M5M
To fight aloud is very brave,
But gallanter, I know,
Who charge within the bosom,
The cavalry of woe.
Michael5000, your words hurt
But your message is empty
You can't hold a candle to me
to my
lovely ass
which is actually quite smart
I am a total fan of the fruit with chocolate... so I'll completely disagree with you there. I'm not a huge chocolate fan, so for me the fruit makes it better...
Wow, ChuckDaddy, this is a random list of pet peeves. I've never really noticed people saying "back in the day" nor have I associated it with the African-American set. I'm way too old and white to like hip hop, but I will admit that every once in a while those hi-hoppers put out a catchy tune like Gold Digger and Yeah, Yeah. Can someone explain the allure of Little John to me? He's intolerable.
Fruit in chocolate is damn good.
@ Emily,
I am so embarassed. I had no idea you were following this blog. I guess death wasn't so kind about stopping for you after all.
Sorry about the mental health issues. The cavalry of woe is some bad fuckers, indeed.
But speaking of clippity-clop, clippity-clop, clippity-clop, why don't you try to mix things up with the meter a little bit? Write something that can't be sung to the tune of "Yellow Rose of Texas"? I think some exposure to the rhyme and meter schemes of contemporary hip-hop might do your smart, lovely ass some good.
M5M
You know what might pet peeve is, a bunch vanilla wafers. In the words of Killer Mike -
"We wear our pants big/because our mothers were too poor to buy our size/call it what it is nigga/its fuc$ing poverty!"
"Pipe dreams/ Crack fiends/ Cars look like ice cream/ Kids see the bling bling/ And they want them nice things/ All cause of tennis shoes/ Our kids drop out of high school/ They said 'Be Like Mike'/ So ball, nigga!/ That's life."
Peaze Ya'll, the fab one is izzout! Merry X-Mas from the ATL to my white brothers and sisters out there.
Now, vanilla wafers with the chocolate and raspberry, there's a dessert.
4: Can I add to the table guys on bikes when I'm in a car and cars (especially cabs) when I'm on a bike?
5: Yes! I NEVER say hip-hop. It's fucking rap music. Period.
6: Keep those raspberries the hell away from my chocolate too.
I actually would argue that much of hip hop is just as good as any famous/respected poetry from the past or present. And I am 95% on the side of pedestriasns, although some deserve to get hit by cars.
I don't think hip-hop is any more or less "poetic" than rock. Rock can be just as stupid and both have their moments with lyrics.
And I'm not really into poetry, so I'm not sure what I'm comparing it to. But, I just think that due to both the constraints of making 4/5 of their songs about sex, drugs, or just feeling like saying, "yeah!" combined with the need to rhyme so many of their lines would make it all seem pretty cheesey if just read w/o the music.
I will say that hip-hop has some of the funniest lines in music history, but it still rankles me to hear it being treated like its some deep soulful art (just as it would if rock was treated that way).
I'm with you about the fruit and chocolate thing. Don't f**k up the perfectly good chocolate with perfectly good raspberries. Just say no.
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